„Und dann?“ – Ein Abend über den Tod
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Gijs Leenaars
Concert
© Marcel Köhler
© Gijs Leenaars
Ticket Prices
38 Euro
reduced 22 Euro
This event will be recorded by Deutschlandradio.
The greatest question of life is likely death – that frightening and equally inevitable mystery that awaits us in the end. It is simultaneously a part of life and its limit. And how people deal with death varies from culture to culture.
In early June at Radialsystem, the Rundfunkchor Berlin approaches death in its various shades on different levels through music and text. Beside Pascal Dusapin’s austere and secular Requiem and Clythus Gottwald’s a cappella arrangement of Gustav Mahler’s Adagietto “Im Abendrot”, the award-winning actress Eva Meckbach addresses questions of acceptance as well as repression in texts selected by dramaturg Angelika Schmidt, presenting historical and contemporary fantasies of eternity.
Cast
Conductor
Gijs Leenaars
Soprano
Misaki Yoshida
Reading
Eva Meckbach
Bass
Mathis Koch
Dramaturgy
Angelika Schmidt
Biographien
With around 60 concerts a year, CD recordings and international guest appearances, the Rundfunkchor Berlin is one of the most outstanding choirs in the world. Three Grammy Awards alone attest to the quality of its recordings. Its broad repertoire, flexible, richly nuanced sound, flawless precision and gripping response make the professional choir a partner of major orchestras and conductors, including Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Gijs Leenaars has been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Rundfunkchor Berlin since 2015/16. Born in Nijmegen in 1978, the Dutchman is one of the most interesting choral conductors of the younger generation. He studied piano, choral and orchestral conducting in Nijmegen and Amsterdam. Gijs Leenaars conducts cross-genre concert performances such as the "human requiem" or "LUTHER dancing with the gods" and is responsible for recordings of a cappella repertoire and choral symphonic works.
Programme
Gustav Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Transcription „Im Abendrot“ for Choir a cappella by Clytus Gottwald
Pascal Dusapin
Requiem(s)
for mixed Choir and Winds
The greatest question of life is likely death – that frightening and equally inevitable mystery that awaits us in the end. It is simultaneously a part of life and its limit. And how people deal with death varies from culture to culture.
In early June at Radialsystem, the Rundfunkchor Berlin approaches death in its various shades on different levels through music and text. Beside Pascal Dusapin’s austere and secular Requiem and Clythus Gottwald’s a cappella arrangement of Gustav Mahler’s Adagietto “Im Abendrot”, the award-winning actress Eva Meckbach addresses questions of acceptance as well as repression in texts selected by dramaturg Angelika Schmidt, presenting historical and contemporary fantasies of eternity.
Cast
Conductor
Gijs Leenaars
Soprano
Misaki Yoshida
Reading
Eva Meckbach
Bass
Mathis Koch
Dramaturgy
Angelika Schmidt
Biographies
With around 60 concerts a year, CD recordings and international guest appearances, the Rundfunkchor Berlin is one of the most outstanding choirs in the world. Three Grammy Awards alone attest to the quality of its recordings. Its broad repertoire, flexible, richly nuanced sound, flawless precision and gripping response make the professional choir a partner of major orchestras and conductors, including Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Gijs Leenaars has been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Rundfunkchor Berlin since 2015/16. Born in Nijmegen in 1978, the Dutchman is one of the most interesting choral conductors of the younger generation. He studied piano, choral and orchestral conducting in Nijmegen and Amsterdam. Gijs Leenaars conducts cross-genre concert performances such as the "human requiem" or "LUTHER dancing with the gods" and is responsible for recordings of a cappella repertoire and choral symphonic works.
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